Example sentences of "[verb] been guilty of [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | has been guilty of fraudulent trading contrary to s. 458 of the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 2 | Of course if her doctor has been guilty of serious neglect , you and your parent may decide that you should lodge a complaint with the local Community Health Council , whose job is to represent to the Area Health Authority the interests of the public in the district in which it operates . |
| 3 | 12–7– They dealt with " Mary Trotter who before joining the Free Church has been guilty of antenuptial fornication and that while a communicant . " |
| 4 | Damaris discovers that she has been guilty of intellectual sin in failing to believe , to realize imaginatively , the nature of the material she is studying . |
| 5 | Under the old law of larceny he may not have been guilty of attempted larceny . |
| 6 | He was therefore held to have been guilty of contributory negligence and the widow 's damages reduced . |
| 7 | Under the Common Law , proof that the plaintiff had been guilty of contributory negligence , and that he had the ‘ last opportunity ’ of avoiding the accident , entirely deprived him of his remedy . |
| 8 | Public protest followed a judge who fined a rapist 2,000 after asserting that the woman had been guilty of contributory negligence by hitch-hiking . |
| 9 | Equally , in the case of John Main at Inverkeithing , he and his two fellow excisemen were threatened with the board 's displeasure in 1752 , when the collector of Bo'ness accepted , without any enquiry into the facts , an allegation that they had been guilty of excessive drinking and had thereby neglected their duties . |
| 10 | The Monis government had been guilty of foolish panic , the Marne growers of mob violence . |
| 11 | He 's been guilty of sharp practice in the past , though this is undoubtedly the worst example I 've come across personally . ’ |